TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time
JO  - American ethnologist
A1  - Guyer, Jane I.
SP  - 409
EP  - 421
VL  - 34
IS  - 3
N2  - A view from 1950s and 1960s Britain suggests that the public culture of temporality in the United States has shifted from a consequential focus on reasoning toward the near future to a combination of response to immediate situations and orientation to a very long-term horizon. This temporal perspective is most marked in the public rhetoric of macroeconomics, but it also corresponds in remarkable ways to evangelicals' views of time. In this article, I trace the optionality and consonance of this shift toward the relative evacuation of the near future in religion and economics by examining different theoretical positions within each domain. In conclusion, I suggest that the near future is being reinhabited by forms of punctuated time, such as the dated schedules of debt and other specific event-driven temporal frames.<p /> 
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SN  - 0094-0496
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.3.409
ID  - ref1
ER  -